Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. But a fellow told me a story one time about a man down in Kentucky... where they make bourbon. And he said you can take a jigger or two jiggers and get by all right. But if you try to take the whole bottle why you have lost what you started with. So don't try to take it too quick. And don't try to do all of it at once. I don't do much promising. I tell what my goals are and then I try to wrap it up and put a blue ribbon on it and get it delivered. We say put the coonskin on the wall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about colored women, and if colored men get their rig...hts, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I'm for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings--they are so trite, so threadbare..., that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

psychologistMothers with marriageable daughters ought to look out for men of this stamp, men with brains to act as protectin...g divinity, with worldly wisdom to diagnose like a surgeon, and with experience to take a mother's place in warding off evil. These are the three cardinal virtues in matrimony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Groot: Now wait a minute, Quo. You really ain't gonna take a man's only set of teeth, are ya?Quo: Uh huh....Groot: Yeah, but I gotta use 'em for eatin'.Quo: Come grub you get 'em.Groot: Whad ya' gonna do with 'em?Quo: My name now Two-Jaw Quo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Love must not be, but take a body too,And therefore what thou wert, and who,...I bid Love aske, and nowThat it assume thy body, I allow,And fixe it selfe in thy lip, eye, and brow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books ... finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria..., with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams. Unlike a truly paludismic ordeal, however, the symptoms felt while savoring a collection of one man's pet quotations are voluptuously enjoyable ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »